Post by fogs on Jan 20, 2005 5:11:25 GMT -5
I'm calling this standing jump cos i dont know what it's tech term is, you know the two footed jumping and landing.
Before the last Olympics BBC were showing a series of programs focusing on individual events in the games. I saw one on long jump.
In ancient Greecian Olympics the long jump was a differant event, athletes would jump from a two footed standing start and land two footed. From pictographic evidence and burial remains that are suspected to be of champion jumpers. Reseachers came to the conclusion that jumpers used hand held weights to enhance distance using the weights as a swinging pendulen to increase forward momentum. Tests were made using modern atheletes to see if the theory was applicable. The atheletes with a little practice were jumping further using the wieghts.
Could this be a future development in Parkour or would the principle have a negative effect on the other aspects of Parkour.
Suppose it would mean carrying some kind of wrist strapped wieghts.
Before the last Olympics BBC were showing a series of programs focusing on individual events in the games. I saw one on long jump.
In ancient Greecian Olympics the long jump was a differant event, athletes would jump from a two footed standing start and land two footed. From pictographic evidence and burial remains that are suspected to be of champion jumpers. Reseachers came to the conclusion that jumpers used hand held weights to enhance distance using the weights as a swinging pendulen to increase forward momentum. Tests were made using modern atheletes to see if the theory was applicable. The atheletes with a little practice were jumping further using the wieghts.
Could this be a future development in Parkour or would the principle have a negative effect on the other aspects of Parkour.
Suppose it would mean carrying some kind of wrist strapped wieghts.
I don't think we wud c this in the future of Parkour. Or at least i hope not. lol
